Nadezhda Andreevna Durova - the heroine of the Patriotic War, according to some historians, the first woman officer in Russia ("cavalry girl"), writer. The daughter of the hussar captain. In 1806, dressed in a man's dress, she fled from home and, posing as the landowner son of Alexander Sokolov, entered the Horse-Polish Lancers Regiment. Participated in 1807 in the War of the Fourth Coalition. For the courage shown in the battles, she received several awards, after which she (under the name of Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov) was promoted to officer. Participated in the Patriotic War and the Foreign Campaign of the Russian Army. She distinguished herself in the battle of Smolensk, under Borodin she defended the Semenov flushes, where she was shell-shocked by a core in her leg, after which she left for Sarapul for treatment. In 1816, with the rank of headquarters captain, she retired...